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by Ryan
June 16th, 2012, 7:26 pm
Forum: V6 Technical/Performance
Topic: about to change rear valve cover gaskets need help
Replies: 20
Views: 919

Re: about to change rear valve cover gaskets need help

Don't bypass your BAC valve coolant lines in the TB. All it does is mess up your idle. If you think it keeps your manifold cooler, you're dumb. Its bolted the the cylinder heads. I don't care where you live, its not at coolant operating temperature outside.
by Ryan
June 16th, 2012, 6:55 pm
Forum: General Mazda MX-3
Topic: Interesting ways to kill a K8?
Replies: 12
Views: 1863

Re: Interesting ways to kill a K8?

OOOOOHHHH.... I have 10L of old death gasoline.... I should fill up the cylinder with an open exhaust valve, fill her up, and then have the baddest a-- flamethrower out the exhaust.
by Ryan
June 16th, 2012, 6:45 pm
Forum: General Mazda MX-3
Topic: Interesting ways to kill a K8?
Replies: 12
Views: 1863

Re: Interesting ways to kill a K8?

Good, I'm glad.

sawdust probably would take a long time to kill it... but smell AWESOME out the tailpipe!
by Ryan
June 16th, 2012, 6:31 pm
Forum: General Mazda MX-3
Topic: Interesting ways to kill a K8?
Replies: 12
Views: 1863

Re: Interesting ways to kill a K8?

Ok, I'm pulling it anyway. You pay shipping, and its yours. Goes for anyone.


Its not a GD panda bear....
by Ryan
June 16th, 2012, 6:21 pm
Forum: General Mazda MX-3
Topic: Interesting ways to kill a K8?
Replies: 12
Views: 1863

Interesting ways to kill a K8?

I have a shredder bound 94 GS. It is rusty far beyond repair. I've salvaged everything useful. Engine burns more oil than gas. I was thinking I'd fill it to the brim with used oil engine oil (I have 5 gallons, I hope that would be enough) and see what it does. Either that or water. Or rev limit it u...
by Ryan
June 16th, 2012, 4:14 pm
Forum: Suspension/Brakes/Wheels/Tires
Topic: Sway bars endlinks
Replies: 5
Views: 1371

Re: Sway bars endlinks

Adjustable endlinks are for re-setting the angle of the link to the bar. If you're not VERY lowered, they're useless.

Beefier ones are useless from a performance viewpoint - the strain in the links is negligible compared to the bar.

The only real benefit would be service life :shrug:
by Ryan
June 16th, 2012, 4:05 pm
Forum: Engine Electronics/Tuning
Topic: Volumetric Efficiency
Replies: 6
Views: 4313

Re: Volumetric Efficiency

You're very much on the right track. Plenum design is one of the hardest things you can do to an engine. How air behaves is 20% science and 80% magic. They've been working on modeling fluid flow for over a century, and still, Navier-Stokes equations can only fully solve some 70-odd real life problem...
by Ryan
June 16th, 2012, 12:26 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Automatic transmission question
Replies: 4
Views: 1190

Re: Automatic transmission question

Ford transmissions over Chev :shrug:

Either way, it should make it wherever you want it to go. Just keep in mind that the fluid went somewhere... leaky leaky.
by Ryan
June 14th, 2012, 1:05 am
Forum: Engine Electronics/Tuning
Topic: Mega Squirt III with V3.57 expansion
Replies: 5
Views: 3823

Re: Mega Squirt III with V3.57 expansion

I'm not sure of MSIIIV3.57, I'm building a MSIIV3, but I can tell you sequential injection is a waste of time. above about 3000 RPM, you will have NO noticeable difference between batch and full sequential. Below that, you'll have more uniform wall wetting, and your A/F should be more stable at idle...
by Ryan
June 11th, 2012, 7:50 am
Forum: V6 Technical/Performance
Topic: still burning too much gas...
Replies: 182
Views: 6358

Re: still burning too much gas...

An ohmmeter often won't tell you jack about the condition of your electrical system because electricity does not behave the same at 1v and 10 000v. Thats why the low voltage resistance of plug wires is a useless measure. I feel like you're still just 'thinking' that the suggested solutions are not t...
by Ryan
June 11th, 2012, 12:07 am
Forum: V6 Technical/Performance
Topic: still burning too much gas...
Replies: 182
Views: 6358

Re: still burning too much gas...

I see you've "thought" about upgrading grounds, and you SAID that you redid the vacuum.

Do the grounds.

Double check every nipple in the vacuum, all it might take is reversing two of the adjacent nipples in the EGR system.
by Ryan
June 11th, 2012, 12:05 am
Forum: Electrical & Lighting
Topic: How is my soldering?
Replies: 6
Views: 1576

Re: How is my soldering?

Bowling and Grippo, the same company that makes all of the Megasquirt PCB's.
by Ryan
June 11th, 2012, 12:04 am
Forum: V6 Technical/Performance
Topic: Ignition Timing issue
Replies: 2
Views: 318

Re: Ignition Timing issue

1. Timing belt jumped and left head is not in time

2. TEN is not actually working. (corrosion on pins, not actually being in diag mode)

3. Pulley failure
by Ryan
June 8th, 2012, 7:32 pm
Forum: V6 Technical/Performance
Topic: still burning too much gas...
Replies: 182
Views: 6358

Re: still burning too much gas...

From my experience, a problem like this is usually something little that you overlooked as you dove into the complicated s---. I did it with my black car, I see many other threads with it

Go back to basics.

Grounds
Intake leaks


Don't just say its good, check half-ass, literally go and do it.

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